This week is likely one many of the city’s younger set have been looking forward to, like the first snowfall, for a while now.

The reason for the excitement is the arrival of the Paw Patrol live show at the Leon’s Centre. The heroic pups, along with Ryder and a few other humans, will join together on “The Great Pirate Adventure.” The shows take place Tuesday at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 2 and 6 p.m. Tickets start at $25.

Not only that, but, for those who like puppetry, the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia will be in the city tomorrow to help Marcus Pfister’s book The Rainbow Fish, along with the companion tales The Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea and Opposites, jump off the page and onto the stage. The show starts at 3:30 p.m. and tickets start at $15.

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Families will also be the focus of this afternoon’s “Black is Beautiful” concert by the Kingston Symphony. Led by guest conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, the orchestra will play pieces by Hendrix, Davis, and Ellington. Tickets for the 2:30 p.m. show are $20, $15 for students.

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Those interested in seeing the next generation of classical musicians will have two chances this week at the Isabel. Queen’s University’s symphony orchestra performs tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, while the wind ensemble, featuring members of their counterparts from the University of Toronto, perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday night. It’s also a chance to hear classical music for just $15 a show.

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While he shares a name with one of the greatest classical music composers, Sebastian Bach prefers his songs to rock. The former Skid Row frontman will be doing so in a rescheduled show Sunday night at the Ale House with openers Hot Knives. Tickets are $40 and the doors open at 7 p.m.

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Like Skid Row, the Shuffle Demons started out in the mid-1980s, and had a minor hit with the eminently catchy “Spadina Bus.” The three-saxophone jazz-funk group stop by the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts tonight for a show at 7:30.

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The Isabel is also where one of this week’s Tone Deaf Festival performances will take place. That would be Thursday, when Eve Egoyan performs on the piano and disklavier in a 7:30 p.m. show titled “EarWitness.” Tickets are $39.

Tonight, at the new local artists collective 12CAT on Cataraqui Street (go ahead and guess which number), it will be Phedre, rapper Lil Gay, Exquisite Horse, and Jake Meginsky performing. Tickets for the 10 p.m. show are $10.

Sunday will see the festival shift over to the Human Media Lab at the university to listen to new electronic music created by students.

On Friday, it will be immersive sound composer Phill Niblock performing at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Joining the 85-year-old will be video installation artist Katherine Liberovskaya. Tickets are $10 for the 8 p.m. show.

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Before the Agnes hosts the Tone Deaf Festival, it might be named one of this year’s winners at Monday’s Ontario Association of Art Galleries awards ceremony. Contemporary art curator Sunny Kerr is up for a writing award, while the gallery is up for exhibition of the year (with a budget of under $10,000) for “A Form of Formlessness” by Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio.

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There are a couple of new exhibitions opening at the Union Gallery just a few University Avenue blocks away from theAgnes.

“(Me)diated re/flections” will occupy the Main Space starting today, while “Haptic/Optic” will do the same in the Project Room. The opening reception will be Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.

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As we start the season of giving, there are a couple of fundraisers Sunday to consider.

There’s a fundraiser for Kingston General Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. at BluMartini. Heatwave will bring their dance-friendly Motown downtown, and it will also feature performances by She Sings and Old Doc’s New Tricks. Tickets are $20, $10 for students.

A familiar face on the local music scene, drummer Gary Paquin, needs help as he’s now suffering the effects of Lyme disease and Parkinson’s disease. There’s a fundraiser for him on Sunday as well. Running from noon to 8 p.m. at Zorba’s on Bath Road, it will feature performances by Red Rose Express, Girlz with Guitarz, Urban Lace, Picket Fences, The Monarchs, and many more. Admission is by donation.

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There are a pair of events this week featuring local authors.

The Whig’s food columnist, Lindy Mechefske, has released a new book titled Out of Old Ontario Kitchens. It looks back at the province’s early days, and at some of the recipes prepared during them. She will be launching her new book at Novel Idea on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m.

And Amanda Rose will be at Indigo in the Cataraqui Centre from 10 to 4 p.m. today signing copies of her five books.

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There will be a couple of Canadian country concerts of note this week.

Tonight, Tim Hicks brings his Get Loud tour, and special guests Tebey and Madeline Merlo, to the Leon’s Centre. The show starts at 7.

On Wednesday, Gord Bamford brings his “Honkytonks & Dive Bar” tour to the Ale House. “Dive Bar” is his latest single, and it just happens to have been written by the aforementioned Tebey. General admission is $34.40, and the doors open at 8. Jojo Mason will be opening.

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The Baby Grand welcomes Tarragon Theatre’s production of Drew Hayden Taylor’s “Cottagers and Indians” to its space for a five-night, one-afternoon run starting Tuesday.

That’s the same night Juno winners A Tribe Called Red plays downstairs on the main stage. Both shows start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the play start at $29, at $29.50 plus for the concert.

There will also be the holiday-themed “Oh, What a Night” show, featuring songs by Frankie Valli and Andy Williams, Wednesday night, and then, on Thursday, things will get loud as the always-popular Classic Albums Live perform AC/DC’s Back in Black.

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This will be a big week for Kingston’s The Glorious Sons. The Juno-winning rock quintet headlines Thursday night at the ACC, er, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto as the band’s Canadian tour wraps. Then they hop on a jet plane and head for the U.S. for a handful of shows before breaking for the holidays, after which they’ll be right back on the road again for an American tour.

Toronto is also where American band Pop Evil kicks off its tour Saturday. The lead singer for the rock band is Kingston-born, Michigan-raised Leigh Kakaty.

And lastly, Miss Emily released a new video this week for her song, “Hold Back the River,” from her 2017 album, In Between (www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0mD9raqzJc). The video was shot in Kingston Pen with a cast of 100 (including myself), so don’t be surprised if you see a few familiar faces. Check it out.